A rather tidy, dense shrub with stiffly arching branches, the warted barberry gets its name from the small raised bumps on its otherwise smooth bark. This evergreen shrub is native to west-central China. Three-part spines line the branches.

Warty barberry's leathery, rich green leaves are tipped with spines. Leaf undersides are gray-white. In winter's cold, the leaves may turn red, or simply blush mahogany or bronze-burgundy. In late spring, golden flowers appear on twigs tucked under the leaves....

If you like tough and thorny plants then this shrub is for you. Gladwyn's barberry is a beautiful thorny evergreen that is a hybrid cross between Berberis verruculosa and Berberis gagnepainii. It is grown for its glossy, spiny, evergreen leaves that turn burgundy-bronze shades in winter. This medium sized shrub is also graced with showy yellow flowers in mid to late spring. The flowers are followed by small blue-black fruits that offer little visual appeal but are attractive to...

This popular cultivar has a mounded to spreading habit and deep green foliage that turns bronze hues in winter.

Gladwyn's barberry is a beautiful, but thorny, evergreen that is a hybrid cross between Berberis verruculosa and Berberis gagnepainii. It is grown for its glossy, spiny, evergreen leaves that turn bronze in winter. This medium sized shrub is also graced with showy yellow flowers in mid to late spring. The flowers are followed by small blue-black fruits that offer...

The Mentor barberry is an exceptionally resilient shrub for hedging and deterring trespassers. It originated in Mentor, Ohio, as a hybridization between wintergreen barberry (Berberis julianae) and Japanese barberry (B. thunbergii). Slender yellowish yet stiff branch shoots grow from this generally rounded but upright shrub that's semi-evergreen. The colder the winter, the progressively more deciduous it becomes.

The new foliage in springtime is chartreuse-green, and then matures...

At first glance, the hybrid Ottawa barberry looks like a Japanese barberry on steroids. Ottawa barberry shows intermediate characteristics of both of its parents: European barberry (Berberis vulgaris) and Japanese barberry (B. thunbergii)). It develops into a taller, rounded deciduous shrub.

Rounded oval leaves, sometimes with tiny teeth on the edges, are found on the Ottawa barberry. The leaves are medium green, turning haphazardly yellow to orange-red each autumn. In spring,...

The Silver Miles hybrid barberry looks like a purple-leaved Japanese barberry on steroids. It shows intermediate characteristics of both of its parents: European barberry (Berberis vulgaris) and Japanese barberry (B. thunbergii)). Selection 'Silver Miles' has deep red-purple foliage with splotches or blushing hints of silver-gray. This barberry develops into a tall, rounded to spreading mounded deciduous shrub.

Rounded oval leaves, sometimes with tiny teeth on the edges, are found...

This selection of Bergenia, ‘Bressingham Ruby,’ has the distinction of dramatic color in autumn and winter, vivid flowers and compact habit. Like other bergenias, it is a low, evergreen perennial with large, rounded, glossy green leaves that grow from a wandering fleshy root in an unruly clump. In mid to late spring the plant sends up tall, thick stems that end in a generous cluster of small, rose-red flowers. In late fall and through winter the leaves are dark maroon and shiny. By spring, some may...